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Duterte answers Binay: I never committed extrajudicial killings


Presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte on Friday once again denied that he was involved in extrajudicial killings serving as mayor of Davao City.

This was after his rival, Vice President Jejomar Binay, warned Filipinos that they will regret voting for the Davao City mayor, saying Duterte will kill even minors, women, and elderly if suspected to be criminals.

"I never admitted that I did an extrajudicial killing. What I admitted to him, baka iyong, kuwan, killings. When you go out against criminals and syndicates, do not expect a pristine... It's always bloody. I never said extrajudicial," he told reporters at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City.

"Bakit siya maano sa killing? Is he not worried of the money? Of the billions he took with him?" he added.

Duterte also said that he will not choose the criminals he will persecute.

"A criminal is a criminal, rich or poor," he said.

In his speech before the National Association of Independent Travel Agencies, he said that he cannot kill women.

"Even if I wanted to kill children and women, I could not do it. Lalaki, anytime. But to kill a person kneeling down, his hands up, and say kill him, I could not do that. There is a little bit of warrior left in me," he said.

"You do not kill people like that. It has always been the classic example of arresting a person and a person offering violence resistance. And if you feel you are in danger, shoot the person," he added.

Still, Duterte in his speech continued to express his anger towards criminals, especially drug pushers.

"What give you the right to destroy the life of my son or my daughter? What give you the right to rape a one-year-old child and patay? What gives you the right to pull out somebody there driving a car, a lady at that, and shoot her right there?" he said.

"I ask you, kayong mga kriminal at mga dorogista, p— i— kayo, anong kasalanan namin? Huwag na tayong magdrama-drama rito. Bleeding heart. God. So you count the bleeding heart of the criminals but you never bothered to say a few words of the victims?" he added. —JST, GMA News

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